Windsor YC Application

Winter 2019Acquired

Windsor went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2019 batch as a B2B company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Winter 2019
Industry: B2B
Team size: 5
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2018

Founders

Pranay PrakashFounder/CEO
Andrew FaustFounder

What Windsor does

Windsor brings AI and deepfake tech to video personalization. We create personalized videos at scale - where someone can record a single video of themselves talking to a camera, and then send millions of these to customers with unique names, at unique companies and different locations around the globe. Each video will look and sound like it was personally recorded.

Windsor's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Windsor, Winter 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Windsor

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI Powered Personalized Videos

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We build software that lets someone record one video of themselves speaking, and then automatically creates thousands or millions of personalized versions using AI deepfake technology. Each version addresses a unique customer by name, company, or location, making it look like a personal message.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in San Francisco, with some team members remote. The company would be based in San Francisco after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We chose San Francisco because it's where we're located and it puts us close to key customers, early adopters, and other startups working with AI and video technology.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Windsor YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Windsor's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Windsor would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.